...... it's very very bad. Effing tragic, really. But the country has
survived a lot, and it's conceivable that it can survive four more years
of pillage and rape by Bush and his big business cronies.

Only thing to do is carry on, live frugally, fight for what's right, try
especially (OBROFF) to save as much wilderness and other public land as
possible, and to pick up whatever pieces are left once the darkness
lifts.

And hope the U.S. isn't by then irredeemably confirmed as the true Evil
Empire in the eyes of the rest of the world....

JR
(glad at the moment that he's neither Iranian nor barely just clinging to
the middle class by an exportable 9-to-5 job....)